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Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Ramadan Massacre in Orlando - Robert Spencer

by Robert Spencer

-- in the wake of the jihad massacre, it
was time for the Leftist political and media elites to do what they
always do first and foremost after every jihad massacre: make sure that
no one thought ill of Islam.

It was the worst mass shooting ever on American soil: Omar
Mateen, 29, opened fire at the Pulse, an Orlando, Florida gay nightclub,
on Saturday night. Mateen murdered at least fifty people and wounded
another 53. The death count is almost certain to go higher, as many are
quite gravely wounded. Mateen was a Muslim who had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State
and mentioned the Boston Marathon jihad killers in a 911 call just
before he started shooting. Thus in the wake of the jihad massacre, it
was time for the Leftist political and media elites to do what they
always do first and foremost after every jihad massacre: make sure that
no one thought ill of Islam.

The FBI, to its credit,
immediately declared the massacre a terror attack, but Barack Obama was
circumspect about what kind: he declared
that it was too early to know “the precise motivations of the killer.”
This despite the fact that not only had Mateen pledged allegiance to the
Islamic State and made reference to the Tsarnaev brothers, but also the
Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack, and the FBI is investigating reports
that Mateen recited Islamic prayers during the massacre. On top of all
that, the attack took place during the Muslim month of Ramadan, during
which the Islamic State has called for jihad attacks against Americans.

Nonetheless, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, along with many other
Leftists, tried to turn the jihad attack into a commercial for rolling
back Americans’ Second Amendment rights, tweeting:
“We mourn with the people of Orlando and the LGBT community as a whole
on the news that -once again- we have lost precious lives to the gun.”
Who knew that guns could be so diabolical and anti-gay?

Leftist responses ranged from the ominous to the absurd. Ominously,
Facebook and Reddit turned to censorship to try to prevent people from
thinking ill of Islam. Facebook removed the Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) page, which had been up for six years and had over 55,000 members, and Reddit began banning people who dared to mention that the killer was a Muslim.

On the absurd side, ACLU staff attorney Chase Strangio tweeted that the massacre was the fault of conservative Christians:
“You know what is gross — your thoughts and prayers and Islamophobia
after you created this anti-queer climate.” Does the illustrious
Strangio actually believe that Omar Mateen was incited to commit mass
murder in the gay nightclub in Orlando by an “anti-queer climate”
created by Christian conservatives? He probably does, since, as a
Leftist, he knows that non-Muslims are always and everywhere to blame
for atrocities that Muslims commit.

Not only are non-Muslims to blame for Muslim atrocities, but Muslims are their victims, even when no Muslims are killed. AFP
reported that “Florida officials also invited a local Islamic leader to
address the media in a bid to preempt a possible backlash against the
Muslim community.” Imam Muhammad Musri of the Islamic Society of Central
Florida warned against “sensationalizing” the story.

In a similar vein, gay activist Steven W Thrasher wrote sanctimoniously in the Guardian:
“Let us remember that we have never really blamed all Christians,
Republicans or Democrats (many who have organized en masse to subject
queer people to systematic violence and destruction at different points
in American history) for the violence waged against us. We should
remember that again today. We should remember not to blame all members
of any other religion or political ideology for what one person does.”
Right. The problem is that any examination of the motives and goals of
people such as Omar Mateen, and any consideration of what can be done
about them, is always met with the accusation that such examinations and
considerations constitute blaming all Muslims for the actions of
jihadis. It is so obviously fallacious that it is hard not to suspect
that it is an intentional obfuscation.

In reality, the
motivation for the jihad is quite clear, but Barack Obama doesn’t want
to acknowledge that, because to do so would force him to confront the
reality of Islamic teaching regarding gays. The Qur’an says: “If two men
among you are guilty of lewdness, punish them both. If they repent and
amend, leave them alone; for Allah is Oft-returning, Most Merciful.”
(4:16) That seems rather mild, but there’s more. The Qur’an also depicts
Allah raining down stones upon people for engaging in homosexual
activity: “We also sent Lot. He said to his people: “Do you commit
lewdness such as no people in creation committed before you? For you
practise your lusts on men in preference to women: you are indeed a
people transgressing beyond bounds….And we rained down on them a shower
of brimstone: Then see what was the end of those who indulged in sin and
crime!” (7:80)

Muhammad makes clear that Muslims should be
the executors of the wrath of Allah by killing gays. A hadith depicts
Muhammad saying: “If you find anyone doing as Lot’s people did, kill the
one who does it, and the one to whom it is done.” (Abu Dawud 38:4447)
And: “Stone the upper and the lower, stone them both.” (Ibn Majah
3:20:2562)

Combine this with the fact that Islamic State spokesman Abu Mohammad al-Adnani recently called on Muslims
to use this Ramadan to “get prepared, be ready … to make it a month of
calamity everywhere for nonbelievers…especially for the fighters and
supporters of the caliphate in Europe and America,” and Mateen’s pledge
of allegiance to the Islamic State, and there is no doubt whatsoever
what Omar Mateen was trying to do.

The Left has chosen to
protect Islam at all costs, even at the expense of its other victim
groups. When the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) several
years ago ran ads highlighting the mistreatment of gays in Islamic law,
the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, which is its city council,
issued a resolution condemning not that mistreatment, but our ads. Gay
advocates such as Theresa Sparks and Chris Stedman attacked us for
daring to call attention to the institutionalized mistreatment of gays
under Islamic law. Their gay advocacy doesn’t extend to standing up to
Sharia oppression of gays, even though that oppression is far more
virulent and violent than anything from “right-wing extremists” in the
U.S.

And you can’t blame them: given the Leftist/jihadist
alliance, it’s clear that if they spoke out against Sharia mistreatment
of gays, they would no longer be invited to the best parties, and might
even be branded as “right-wing.” Their moral cowardice and duplicity,
however, are obvious, and monstrous in the light of what has just
happened in Orlando. The Left’s continuing and now reflexive obfuscation
and denial in the wake of every jihad massacre only ensures that there
will be many, many more such massacres.

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